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A  Message  from  the  President 

The  little  book  which  is  herewith  presented  is 
intended  as  a  statement  to  the  alumni  of  the  gen- 
eral situation  of  the  University  at  this  time.  It 
is  hoped  that  they  will  all  find  it  of  interest  and 
that  many  will  see  a  marked  difference  between 
the  Quadrangles  as  they  knew  them  and  the  Quad- 
rangles as  they  are  today.  Moreover  the  Univer- 
sity is  not  stationary.  There  are  distinct  and 
large  plans  for  the  future.  From  the  beginning 
the  University  has  looked  far  forward  and  it  has 
in  the  main  realized  its  aims.  We  are  confident 
that  the  present  dreams  will  become  actual  in  the 
not  distant  future. 

The  large  body  of  alumni,  of  course,  comprises 
chiefly  those  who  have  not  yet  reached  middle  life. 
Of  the  total  number  of  degrees  conferred,  three 
thousand  and  forty-two  were  given  in  the  period 
ending  with  1905.  Ten  thousand  seven  hundred 
and  seventy-nine  have  been  given  in  the  second 
fifteen-year  period  of  the  University  history. 

This  makes  it  plain  that  the  University  of 
Chicago  is  on  a  totally  different  basis  from  many 
other  universities  of  older  foundation.  The  num- 
ber of  alumni  who  have  reached  more  than  middle 
life  and  who  have  had  an  opportunity  to  acquire 

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THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  CHICAGO 

fortunes  on  a  considerable  scale  is  necessarily  with 
us  very  small.  It  cannot  be  expected  that  in  the 
immediate  future  our  alumni  may  do  the  large 
things  for  the  University  which  have  been  done 
and  which  are  daily  being  done  for  certain  older 
institutions.  The  large  needs  now  before  the  Uni- 
versity must  in  the  main  be  met  from  other  sources. 
At  the  same  time  the  generous  interest  which 
our  alumni  have  so  often  manifested  is  deeply 
appreciated  and  is  encouraging  for  the  future. 

It  is  believed  that  no  institution  has  a  more 
loyal  body  of  alumni  than  ours.  The  Alumni 
Council  which  represents  the  alumni  body  and 
which  has  in  hand  the  various  alumni  interests,  is 
a  very  active  and  efficient  organ  and  in  its  plans 
and  policies  is  looking  forward  alertly  to  the 
future. 

The  University  extends  cordial  greetings  to  all 
its  alumni  everywhere,  and  will  always  rejoice  in 
their  successes  and  have  sympathy  for  their  diffi- 
culties. It  is  the  distinct  view  of  all  of  us  that 
the  University  exists  not  merely  on  the  Midway, 
but  wherever  its  alumni  are  doing  the  active  work 
of  the  world;  and  we  believe  that  the  lessons  of 
their  student  life  will  make  an  essential  part  of 
the  power  with  which  they  perform  their  duties 
of  citizenship  in  any  part  of  the  world. 

Harry  Pratt  Judson 

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THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  CHICAGO 
IN  1921 

Aims  and  Qrowth 

THE  University  of  Chicago  is  now  in  its 
thirtieth  year.  It  is  still  the  youngest  of 
great  American  universities.  But  it  has 
matriculated  87,000  students;  it  has  graduated 
10,000  Bachelors,  2,000  Masters,  1,200  Doctors  of 
Philosophy,  and  600  Doctors  of  Law.  It  has  an 
annual  enrolment  of  11,000  students;  it  has  a 
library  of  almost  1,000,000  books  and  assets 
aggregating  $50,000,000. 

Other  universities  are  of  course  older,  larger,  or 
richer;  but  Chicago  has  been  in  many  ways  a 
pioneer  in  American  education.  It  was  the  first 
to  offer  regular  university  work  through  the 
Summer  Quarter,  and  still  while  most  university 
campuses  are  drowsing,  deserted,  in  summer 
sunshine,  Chicago's  quadrangles  are  humming  with 
5,000  of  the  most  eager  students  of  the  year.  It 
was  Chicago  that  first  made  physical  culture  and 
athletics  a  regular  division  of  the  university, 
and  gave  the  head  of  it  the  rank  of  a  university 
professor,  a  policy  which  has  done  much  for 
American    college    athletics.     Chicago    was    the 


THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  CHICAGO 

first  university  in  the  United  States  to  establish 
a  university  press,  and  all  the  leading  American 
universities  have  since  followed  its  example. 
Chicago  owes  much  to  other  universities,  at 
home  and  abroad,  but  it  has  in  its  turn  made  a 
distinct  contribution  to  American  university 
organization  and  ideals. 

One  thinks  instinctively  of  almost  every 
American  university  as  dominated  either  by  its 
graduate  work  or  its  undergraduate  life,  as  the 
case  may  be.  At  Chicago  the  effort  has  been  to 
let  neither  factor  eclipse  the  other,  but  to  main- 
tain both  in  a  wholesome  equilibrium.  Along  with 
this  has  gone  the  kindred  policy  of  stimulating 
both  teaching  and  research  among  the  members 
of  all  the  departments.  This  has  had  the  double 
effect  of  keeping  the  University  teaching  fresh 
and  modern  and  of  developing  proficiency  in 
investigation  in  an  unusually  large  proportion 
of  the  teaching  staff.  The  University  has  given 
further  encouragment  to  such  research  by  conduct- 
ing scholarly  and  scientific  journals  for  the  inter- 
change of  new  ideas  and  discoveries.  Perhaps 
nowhere  in  America  has  greater  encouragement 
been  given  to  scientific  publication,  and  the 
massive  lists  of  publications  of  members  of  the 
Faculties  which  formed  part  of  the  decennial 
and  again  of  the  quarter-centennial  publications 
give  evidence  of  the  result. 

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THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  CHICAGO 

The  University  has  from  the  first  welcomed 
women  both  as  students  and  as  teachers.  At 
the  very  beginning  of  its  work,  one  of  its  most 
respected  and  beloved  figures  was  Alice  Free- 
man Palmer,  the  Dean  of  Women,  and  among 
the  University's  benefactors  women  have  been 
conspicuous.  Residence  halls  for  women,  all 
given  by  women,  were  among  the  first  buildings 
erected;  while  the  feature  of  the  quarter- 
centennial  celebration  was  the  dedication  of 
Ida  Noyes  Hall,  with  its  clubhouse,  refectory,  and 
gymnasium  for  women. 

The  University  of  192 1  is  of  course  very  differ- 
ent from  that  of  1892.  It  then  enrolled  700 
students;  now  it  has  11,000.  It  then  consisted 
of  the  Colleges,  the  Graduate  Schools  of  Arts, 
Literature,  and  Science,  and  the  Divinity  School. 
To  these  have  been  added,  one  by  one,  six  other 
colleges  or  schools.  In  1898  was  founded  the 
College  of  Commerce  and  Administration,  which 
developed  in  1902  into  the  School  of  that  name. 
The  year  1900  saw  the  organization  of  University 
College,  which  now  enrols  eighteen  hundred 
students  annually  in  its  afternoon,  evening, 
and  Saturday  classes.  Rush  Medical  College 
had  been  affiliated  in  1898,  and  in  1901  the 
Medical  Courses  were  organized  by  the  bring- 
ing of  its  first-  and  second-year  work  to  the 
Quadrangles.     In  1901  the  School  of  Education 


THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  CHICAGO 

was  established,  continuing  the  work  of  the 
Chicago  Institute.  The  University  has  in  the 
School  of  Education  one  of  the  two  completely 
organized  educational  laboratories  in  the  world. 
In  1902  the  Law  School  was  established,  and  the 
standards  embodied  in  it  have  had  an  important 
influence  in  the  improvement  of  legal  education 
in  the  Middle  West.  In  1920  the  University 
added  the  Graduate  School  of  Social  Service 
Administration,  in  continuation  of  the  work  of 
the  Chicago  School  of  Civics  and  Philanthropy. 
The  work  of  the  Divinity  School  has  also  expanded 
through  the  affiliation  of  the  Disciples'  Divinity 
House  in  1894,  the  Ryder  Universalist  House  in 
191 1,  and  the  Chicago  Theological  Seminary 
(Congregational)  in  191 5. 

With  the  leading  events  of  the  University's 
first  quarter-century  its  friends  are  familiar. 
One  of  the  last  of  these  was  the  gift  of  two  hundred 
thousand  dollars  for  the  much  needed  Theology 
Building,  which  was  afterward  increased  to  three 
hundred  thousand  dollars  and  supplemented  by 
Mrs.  Joseph  Bond's  gift  of  fifty  thousand  for  the 
Divinity  Chapel.  A  little  later,  too  late  in  fact 
for  inclusion  in  the  quarter-centennial  History  of 
the  University,  came  the  great  Williams  gift  of 
more  than  two  million  dollars,  which  has  been 
assigned  to  the  maintenance  of  the  School  of 
Commerce   and   Administration.    The   Williams 


Bertram  G.  Goodhue,  Architect 

THE  UNIVERSITY  CHAPEL:  INTERIOR 
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THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  CHICAGO 

gift  was  wholly  unsolicited  and  was  a  complete 
surprise  to  the  President  and  Trustees.  Mr. 
Hobart  W.  Williams  wished  to  make  a  contribu- 
tion to  education  in  memory  of  his  parents  who 
had  lived  for  many  years  in  Chicago,  and  what 
he  knew  of  the  University  led  him  to  make  it  the 
object  of  his  liberality. 

The  Last  Five  Years 

The  second  quarter-century  was  auspiciously 
begun  by  the  successful  conduct  of  the  largest 
single  financial  campaign  in  the  University's 
history  thus  far,  the  Medical  Fund.  The  Presi- 
dent and  the  Trustees  undertook  on  November  8, 
1 91 6,  to  secure  for  medical  work  the  sum  of  five 
million  three  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and 
within  six  months  five  million  four  hundred  and 
sixty-one  thousand  dollars  had  been  raised. 
It  was  only  our  entry  into  war  that  prevented 
the  immediate  execution  of  the  broad  plans  this 
fund  makes  possible.  As  it  is,  the  medical  pro- 
gram is  now  part  of  what  President  Judson 
has  termed  the  "Program  in  Suspense." 

In  the  summer  of  191 8  Mr.  La  Verne  Noyes, 
the  donor  of  Ida  Noyes  Hall,  presented  to  the 
University  property  which  is  estimated  at  about 
two  million  dollars  for  the  establishment  of 
scholarships  for  those  who  had  served  under  the 
American  flag  in  the  Great  War,  and  for  their 

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descendants.  This  generous  and  patriotic  gift 
called  forth  nation-wide  interest  and  has  already 
influenced  many  similar  benefactions.  Hundreds 
of  men  are  now  enjoying  its  benefits. 

The  University  in  the  War 
Mr.  Noyes  made  his  great  gift  when  the  war 
was  at  its  height.  From  the  day  the  United 
States  entered  that  struggle  the  activities  of  the 
University  were  more  and  more  turned  into 
war  channels.  Many  students  and  professors 
put  on  khaki  immediately  and  found  their  places 
in  officers'  training  camps  or  in  war  preparations 
at  Washington.  The  laboratories  of  the  Uni- 
versity were  promptly  put  at  the  disposal  of 
the  Government  for  experiment  and  research. 
R.O.T.C.  companies,  one  of  them  made  up 
of  Faculty  men,  including  the  President,  drilled 
daily  on  Stagg  Field.  The  University  announced 
that  all  men  of  the  city  and  neighborhood  who 
wished  to  come  to  the  Field  in  the  evenings 
would  receive  free  military  instruction  and  drill, 
and  hundreds  of  men  responded  and  got  their 
first  military  experience  drilling  there  by  electric 
light.  A  beautiful  stand  of  colors  was  after- 
ward presented  to  the  University  by  these  men, 
most  of  whom  became  officers  as  a  result  of  this 
training,  and  all  of  whom  were  sooner  and  better 
prepared  for  service  than  they  would  otherwise 
have  been. 

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THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  CHICAGO 

The  story  of  the  University  in  the  war  has  not 
yet  been  written  and  is  too  long  for  inclusion  here. 
The  President  of  the  University  was  Chairman 
of  one  of  the  appeal  boards  in  connection  with  the 
first  draft  in  191 7,  and  made  an  arduous  journey 
to  Persia  in  191 8  as  Chairman  of  the  Commission 
on  Relief  in  the  Near  East,  and  with  a  special 
unofficial  mission  for  the  Government.  Members 
of  the  Faculties  and  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
found  their  way  into  every  form  of  service  with 
the  army,  the  navy,  the  Red  Cross,  or  the 
Y.M.C.A.  Many  were  active  in  Washington 
throughout  the  war.  More  served  in  France. 
Our  men  of  science  worked  effectively  upon  the 
rationing,  instruction,  transportation,  protection, 
and  health  of  our  soldiers,  while  the  invention  of 
the  Michelson  range-finder,  adopted  by  the 
navy,  and  the  discovery  by  a  University  Ph.D., 
of  Lewisite,  one  of  the  deadliest  poison  gases  of 
the  war,  show  that  on  the  offensive  side  they 
were  equally  successful.  Relief  expeditions  to 
Persia,  Russia,  and  Roumania  were  led  by 
University  of  Chicago  men,  and  one  member  of 
the  Faculties  in  1 918-19  visited  every  one  of  the 
warring  countries,  as  an  expert  for  the  American 
Relief  Administration  and  the  Children's  Relief 
Bureau. 

The  war  record  of  the  alumni  and  students  of 
the  University  is  even  more  impressive.    They 

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were  in  every  field  and  on  every  sea.  Chicago 
men  fell  at  Chateau-Thierry,  Soissons,  and  St. 
Mihiel,  and  in  the  Argonne  campaign.  They 
laid  down  their  lives  in  German  prisons,  with  the 
Army  of  Occupation,  and  even  in  Mesopotamia. 
Four  thousand  three  hundred  and  fifty-five  alumni 
and  former  students  are  known  to  have  been  in 
service.  Nine  hundred  and  sixty-six  won  com- 
missions. Seventy-two  gave  up  their  lives.  At 
least  twenty-five  received  conspicuous  honors. 
In  the  air  service  four  of  the  American  aces  were 
University  of  Chicago  men.  It  must  be  a 
noble  and  distinguished  memorial  that  shall  some 
day  in  the  Quadrangles  of  the  University  fitly 
commemorate  the  service  of  these  men  in  the  war. 

TTieS.A.T.C. 

Nothing  brought  the  war  home  to  the  Univer- 
sity so  forcibly  as  the  institution  of  the  S.A.T.C. 
The  Student  Army  Training  Corps  was  organized 
at  the  University  on  October  i,  191 8,  in  response 
to  the  appeal  of  the  War  Department  calling 
upon  the  colleges  and  universities  to  place  their 
resources  at  the  service  of  the  Government  for  the 
rapid  training  of  young  men  for  service  as  officers 
in  the  new  army.  All  the  men's  dormitories  in 
the  University  were  converted  into  barracks. 
The  second  floor  of  the  grandstand  on  Stagg  Field 
was  inclosed  and  equipped  with  steam  heat  and 

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electric  light  and  thus  made  into  large  barracks 
rooms.  In  addition  to  these  provisions  six  fra- 
ternity houses  on  University  and  Woodlawn 
avenues  were  leased.  Hutchinson  Hall  and 
the  dining-room  and  gymnasium  of  Lexington 
Hall  were  used  for  mess  halls,  and  the  reading- 
rooms  of  Harper  Memorial  Library,  the  Law 
School,  and  other  University  buildings  were 
set  apart  as  halls  for  supervised  study.  The  men 
were  put  into  uniform  as  rapidly  as  possible  and 
their  daily  drills  and  their  practice  of  marching  to 
and  from  mess  and  study  halls  gave  the  University 
during  that  quarter  a  thoroughly  martial  aspect. 
The  necessary  requirement  in  the  way  of  daily  drill 
naturally  interfered  with  the  doing  of  their  student 
work,  however,  and  there  was  a  very  general  relief 
in  the  University  when,  soon  after  the  Armistice 
was  declared  on  November  n,  the  Student  Army 
Training  Corps  was  discontinued  and  on  Decem- 
ber 20  the  last  men  of  the  Corps  were  released  from 
service. 

While  the  Student  Army  Training  Corps 
experiment  lasted  hardly  long  enough  to  be 
thoroughly  tested  as  an  emergency  measure, 
the  response  of  the  University  to  the  call  of  the 
Government  in  placing  its  buildings,  equipment, 
and  Faculties  at  the  service  of  the  War  Depart- 
ment was  one  which  stirred  the  hearts  of  the 
whole  University  community. 

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The  University  after  the  War 
As  with  most  institutions  of  learning  the  Uni- 
versity's enrolment  was  much  reduced  during 
the  war  and  much  increased  after  it.  The 
attendance  for  the  Autumn  Quarter,  1920,  was  the 
largest  in  the  University's  history,  5,993.  All 
University  sports  have  resumed  their  usual  place  in 
student  life.  The  baseball  team  made  an  extended 
and  successful  trip  to  Japan  last  spring.  The 
football  games  never  drew  such  crowds  as  last 
autumn.  Basket-ball,  swimming,  cross-country 
running,  track,  tennis,  and  other  sports  are  being 
assiduously  pursued.  Student  social  life  is  likewise 
busy.  The  Reynolds  Club  has  about  one  thou- 
sand members.  The  fraternities  and  women's 
clubs  are  numerous  and  active.  Ida  Noyes  Hall  is 
crowded  with  women's  activities.  The  Under- 
graduate Council,  the  Honor  Commission,  the 
Campus  Club,  the  W.A.A.,  the  Federation  of  Uni- 
versity Women,  the  Poetry  Club,  the  musical  and 
dramatic  clubs,  and  the  Christian  associations  are 
steadily  at  work.  The  Daily  Maroon,  the  Phoenix, 
Chanticleer,  and  Cap  and  Gown  engage  the  under- 
graduate journalistic  and  literary  talents. 

The  more  serious  labors  of  the  classroom  and 
the  laboratory  are  less  easy  to  chronicle.  But  the 
extraordinary  success  of  the  Michelson  inter- 
ferometer method  of  determining  the  diameter 
of  the  stars  is  still  fresh  in  the  public  mind, 

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and  the  recent  appointment  of  a  well-known 
alumnus,  David  Allan  Robertson,  as  Dean  of  the 
Colleges  is  evidence  that  undergraduate  problems 
are  receiving  their  full  share  of  attention. 

The  Program  in  Suspense 

The  great  fund  secured  by  the  University  in 
1 91 6-1 7  for  medical  development  is  intended  to 
provide  three  things.  First,  the  establishment 
in  the  Quadrangles  of  the  University  of  a  medical 
school  of  the  highest  grade.  It  is  to  be  a  strictly 
graduate  school:  everyone  who  enters  it  must 
have  secured  a  Bachelor's  degree.  The  course 
will  cover  four  years  in  medicine  and  will  lead 
to  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine.  The 
University  is  not  undertaking  to  provide  for  an 
enrolment  of  more  than  three  hundred  and  fifty  in 
this  school.  Its  aim  is  to  train  a  limited  number 
of  selected  students  for  the  medical  profession 
in  the  best  possible  way. 

A  second  feature  of  the  medical  program  is 
the  establishment  of  the  Rush  Graduate  Medical 
School,  near  the  Presbyterian  Hospital,  as  a  grad- 
uate medical  school  for  practitioners,  that  is, 
for  those  who  already  have  the  degree  of  M.D. 
This  school  will  train  specialists  and  will  further 
extend  medical  knowledge  among  men  who  have 
already  been  in  medical  practice. 


THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  CHICAGO 

A  third  feature  of  the  plan  is  the  very  extended 
provision  for  special  research  effected  by  arrange- 
ments for  close  co-operation  with  the  Presby- 
terian Hospital,  the  John  McCormick  Memorial 
Institute  for  Infectious  Diseases,  and  the  Otho 
S.  A.  Sprague  Memorial  Institute. 

It  was  for  this  great  medical  program  that  the 
University  secured  in  191 6-17  nearly  five  and  a 
half  million  dollars.  Of  this  amount  fourteen 
hundred  thousand  dollars  were  to  be  spent  in  new 
buildings.  The  entry  of  the  United  States  into 
the  Great  War  necessarily  postponed  the  erection 
of  these  buildings,  and  consequently  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Medical  School.  As  building  condi- 
tions improve,  however,  the  University  will  take 
up  the  erection  of  these  buildings  and  the  exe- 
cution of  this  whole  medical  program. 

The  larger  of  the  proposed  medical  buildings 
will  be  that  comprising  the  Albert  Merritt  Billings 
Hospital,  for  which  the  Billings  family  has  pro- 
vided one  million  dollars,  and  the  Max  Epstein 
Dispensary,  for  which  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Epstein 
gave  one  hundred  thousand  dollars.  Plans  for 
this  structure  are  now  being  completed  by  Cool- 
idge  and  Hodgdon.  The  building  will  be  located 
on  the  south  side  of  the  Midway  Plaisance.  It 
will  include  a  hospital  with  two  hundred  and 
fifty  beds,  a  dispensary,  laboratories  for  Pathology 
and   Bacteriology,   and  a  library  to  which  Dr. 

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Frank  Billings  has  contributed  his  own  medical 
collection. 

While  the  training  of  candidates  for  the  degree 
of  M.D.  at  the  University  will  be  carried  on  in 
part  in  the  existing  biological  laboratories  and  in 
part  in  this  great  new  building,  for  graduate  work 
for  medical  practitioners  at  Rush  and  the  Presby- 
terian Hospital  provision  will  be  made  in  the 
Rawson  Laboratory  for  which  three  hundred 
thousand  dollars  have  been  provided  by  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Frederick  H.  Rawson. 

The  medical  building  program,  large  as  it  is, 
is  only  a  part  of  the  University  building  program, 
the  execution  of  which  has  thus  far  been  prevented 
by  the  war  and  the  industrial  conditions  that 
followed  it.  In  1918  Mr.  Andrew  MacLeish,  the 
Vice-President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  gave  the 
University  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  to  be 
used  for  the  erection  of  a  building,  preferably  for 
administration.  The  gifts  already  described  of 
three  hundred  thousand  dollars  for  the  Theology 
Building  and  of  fifty  thousand  dollars  for  a 
Divinity  Chapel,  now  increased  by  accumulated 
interest  to  nearly  four  hundred  thousand  dollars, 
have  not  yet  been  applied  to  the  erection  of  these 
buildings.  Plans  have  been  completed,  however, 
by  Coolidge  and  Hodgdon  and  as  soon  as  building 
conditions  become  at  all  favorable  this  beautiful 
group  will  be  erected.     The  Theology  Building 

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is  to  stand  directly  north  of  Haskell  Museum, 
facing  Kent  Chemical  Laboratory  and  forming 
with  Rosenwald  and  Walker  the  south  side  of  the 
Great  Quadrangle.  It  will  complete  the  Harper 
Court,  and  the  adjoining  Divinity  Chapel  will  form 
the  main  feature  on  the  north  side  of  the  Graduate 
Quadrangle  between  Haskell  and  the  Divinity  halls. 

In  preparation  for  the  erection  of  the  Uni- 
versity Chapel  on  the  block  between  Fifty- 
eighth  and  Fifty-ninth  streets  and  University 
and  Woodlawn  avenues,  the  University  purchased 
the  building  and  property  of  the  Quadrangle 
Club,  undertaking  to  erect  a  new  clubhouse  at 
University  Avenue  and  Fifty-seventh  Street  at 
an  expense  of  one  hundred  thousand  dollars. 
Very  attractive  plans  for  a  clubhouse  have  been 
prepared  by  Mr.  Howard  Shaw.  The  increased 
cost  of  building  has  led  the  University  to  increase 
its  proposed  expenditure  for  this  purpose  to  one 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  members 
and  friends  of  the  Club  providing  fifty  thousand 
dollars  in  addition.  As  soon  as  the  building 
can  be  erected  for  approximately  two  hundred 
thousand  dollars  work  upon  the  new  clubhouse 
will  begin. 

Ten  years  ago  Mr.  John  D.  Rockefeller,  the 
founder,  in  his  final  gift  of  ten  million  dollars  set 
apart  one  million  five  hundred  thousand  dollars 
for  a  University  Chapel.    This  great  fund  is  now 

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available  and  plans  drawn  by  Bertram  G.  Good- 
hue are  well  advanced.  The  plan  provides  for  a 
stately  and  beautiful  Gothic  building  with  a 
seating  capacity  of  a  little  more  than  two  thou- 
sand. It  is  to  be  erected  on  the  Woodlawn 
Avenue  side  of  the  block  on  which  the  President's 
House  stands,  fronting  the  Midway  but  set  back 
more  than  a  hundred  feet  from  the  line  of  Fifty- 
ninth  Street.  The  present  plan  includes  a  mas- 
sive tower  two  hundred  and  sixteen  feet  in  height 
above  the  crossing,  which  will  be  the  dominating 
feature  of  the  Quadrangles.  In  no  long  time  this 
Chapel,  which  is  to  be  one  of  the  most  impressive 
buildings  of  its  kind,  will  take  its  place  among  the 
stately  structures  of  the  University.  With  the 
Billings  Hospital  on  the  south  side  of  the  Midway 
and  the  University  Chapel  almost  opposite  it  on 
the  north  side,  the  University  will  make  a  wholly 
new  impression  on  those  who  view  it  from  the 
Plaisance.  The  University's  possession  of  the 
Midway  frontage  continuously  for  three-quarters 
of  a  mile  on  both  sides  of  the  boulevard  gives  it 
an  extraordinary  opportunity  for  architectural 
development,  and  the  Midway  of  the  future, 
lined  on  both  sides  with  such  buildings  as  Ida 
Noyes  Hall,  the  Harper  Memorial  Library,  the 
University  Chapel,  and  the  Billings  Hospital, 
promises  to  be  one  of  the  statliest  academic 
avenues  in  the  world. 

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The  Five-Year  Program 
The  plans  of  the  University  for  development 
in  the  near  future  are  not  confined  to  what  has 
just  been  sketched  as  "The  Program  in  Suspense." 
At  the  June  Convocation,  1920,  the  President 
outlined  a  program  of  what  the  University  ought 
to  accomplish  in  the  next  five  years.  In  191 9 
the  Board  of  Trustees  assigned  income  repre- 
senting two  million  dollars  of  endowment  to 
salary  increases  for  members  of  the  Faculties. 
Again  in  1920  the  Board  authorized  a  further 
increase  of  a  like  amount  in  professors'  salaries. 
This  rapid  advance  of  the  salary  scale  makes  the 
maximum  which  may  be  reached  by  a  professor 
in  Arts,  Literature,  Science,  or  Education  equal 
to  that  provided  in  any  American  university. 
But  to  provide  it  permanently  without  hamper- 
ing funds  needed  for  other  purposes  calls  for  the 
addition  to  the  University's  endowment  of  four 
million  dollars. 

A  second  feature  of  the  Five- Year  Program 
is  the  development  of  the  Graduate  Schools. 
Without  reducing  the  pursuit  of  pure  science  in 
the  Graduate  Faculties  the  University  feels  that 
it  can  also  conduct  in  connection  with  the  Gradu- 
ate Schools  many  types  of  research  which  should 
have  an  immediate  bearing  on  the  application  of 
science  to  industry,  and  for  the  conduct  of  such 
research  it  purposes  to  organize  within  the  Gradu- 

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ate  Schools  a  series  of  Institutes.  In  these  the 
basic  principles  of  pure  science  involved  in 
important  problems  of  society  and  its  industries 
will  be  investigated  and  extended.  The  first 
Institute  will  be  that  of  Physics  and  Chemistry. 
It  will  require  a  building  and  equipment  which 
will  cost  four  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars 
and  an  endowment  which  at  the  outset  should  be 
one  million. 

A  second  Institute  is  to  be  that  of  Plant 
Agriculture.  Its  purpose  will  be  the  advance- 
ment of  the  science  of  agriculture  in  the  matters 
of  plant  production  and  protection,  a  field  in 
which  many  important  fundamental  problems 
are  as  yet  untouched.  The  Institute  will  also 
train  men  in  the  fundamental  science  of  agricul- 
ture for  positions  in  agricultural  colleges  and 
experiment  stations.  Such  advanced  work  in 
these  fields  is  nowhere  being  done  in  any  adequate 
way  and  will  be  warmly  welcomed  by  those  inter- 
ested in  agricultural  science  and  education. 
To  establish  this  Institute  will  require  at  the 
outset  one  hundred  thousand  dollars  for  equip- 
ment and  seven  hundred  thousand  dollars  for 
endowment. 

A  third  Institute  is  that  of  Mining,  to  be  con- 
ducted by  the  Department  of  Geology  with  the 
assistance  of  the  Departments  of  Physics,  Chem- 
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excellent  undergraduate  work  now  being  done  in 
the  schools  of  Mining  and  Engineering,  but  will 
confine  itself  to  advanced  work  like  that  of  the 
other  Institutes.  To  establish  it  will  require  an 
endowment  of  three  hundred  thousand  dollars. 

A  fourth  Institute  will  be  that  of  the  Science  of 
Education.  It  will  be  designed  to  conduct 
research  in  the  science  of  education  and  to  train 
students  and  supervisors  in  such  research.  This 
will  call  for  a  new  endowment  of  one  million 
dollars  and  the  erection  of  the  three  buildings 
which  the  School  of  Education  requires  for  its 
completion;  one  for  the  Graduate  Department, 
one  for  the  Secondary  School,  and  one  for  a 
gymnasium.  Seven  hundred  thousand  dollars 
should  provide  these  buildings. 

It  will  be  seen  that  the  establishment  of  the 
Institutes  calls  for  new  endowments  to  the 
amount  of  three  million  dollars,  while  for  new 
buildings  to  accommodate  them  a  total  of  one 
million  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars 
will  be  necessary. 

These  are,  of  course,  only  a  part  of  the  Uni- 
versity's needs  for  buildings.  The  University 
Library  is  growing  with  extraordinary  rapidity. 
It  now  contains  nearly  eight  hundred  thousand 
volumes  and  two  hundred  thousand  pamphlets, 
a  total  of  almost  one  million  titles,  making  it  in 
size   probably    the    third    university    library   in 


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America.  The  needs  of  the  Library,  as  well  as 
the  need  of  classrooms  for  the  historical  and  social 
sciences  and  the  modern  language  departments, 
call  for  the  completion  at  the  earliest  possible 
day  of  the  Harper  Library  Group  by  the  erection 
of  the  buildings  planned  in  191 2  to  flank  the 
Harper  Memorial  Library  on  the  east  and  west. 
The  administrative  work  of  the  University  is 
scattered  through  several  buildings  in  offices  often 
not  adapted  to  it,  and  a  convenient  and  dignified 
administration  building  should  be  erected.  The 
housing  question  is  increasingly  serious  as  the 
number  of  students  increases  and  there  is  a  great 
demand  for  dormitories.  The  Board  of  Trus- 
tees has  directed  the  Committee  on  Buildings 
and  Grounds  to  secure  plans  for  residence  halls 
for  women  to  inclose  the  northern  half  of  the 
block  containing  Ida  Noyes  Hall.  Residence 
halls  for  men  should  be  erected  on  the  blocks 
west  of  Cobb  Hall.  It  is  evident  that  to  meet 
the  most  pressing  of  these  building  needs  will 
require  not  less  than  one  million  seven  hundred 
and  fifty  thousand  dollars. 

These  plans  of  salary  increase,  Institutes,  and 
new  buildings,  therefore,  require  seven  million 
dollars  for  endowment  and  three  million  dollars 
for  building,  a  total  of  ten  million  dollars  which 
the  University  proposes  to  secure  within  a  period 
of  five  years. 

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THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  CHICAGO 

The  University  Commissions 
The  great  purposes  of  a  university  can  only 
be  accomplished  through  the  fullest  co-operation 
between  its  alumni,  Trustees,  professors,  and 
friends.  To  effect  this  co-operation  the  Uni- 
versity in  October,  1920,  undertook  to  establish 
the  University  Commissions.  There  are  to  be 
fourteen  of  these,  one  for  each  of  the  main  groups 
of  University  interest.  On  each  Commission 
will  be  two  alumni,  a  University  Trustee,  two 
members  of  the  Faculty  immediately  concerned, 
and  two  or  more  other  citizens  to  be  appointed  by 
the  President  of  the  Board  upon  the  recommenda- 
tion of  the  President  of  the  University.  It  will 
be  seen  that  on  each  Commission  there  will  be 
represented  four  important  groups — alumni,  Trus- 
tees, Faculties,  and  citizens  not  already  officially 
related  to  the  University.  The  President  of  the 
University  will  be  an  ex  officio  member  of  each 
Commission. 

The  duty  of  each  Commission  will  be  to  study 
the  work  of  its  particular  school  or  group  of 
interests  and  make  occasional  suggestions  to  the 
Board  of  Trustees  as  to  the  manner  of  improving 
the  work  of  the  school  or  group.  Each  Com- 
mission is  to  meet  at  least  once  a  quarter  except- 
ing in  the  summer  and  is  to  hold  at  least  one 
meeting  each  year  with  the  whole  teaching  force 
of  the  educational  group  with  which  it  deals. 

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THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  CHICAGO 

In  the  Spring  Quarter  there  will  also  be  one 
joint  meeting  of  all  the  Commissions  with  the 
Board  of  Trustees. 

Commissions  are  to  be  appointed  for  the  fol- 
lowing interests:  the  Law  School;  the  Medical 
School;  the  Graduate  Medical  School;  the  Divinity 
School;  the  School  of  Education;  the  School  of 
Commerce  and  Administration;  the  Colleges  of 
Arts,  Literature,  and  Science;  Women's  Interests; 
the  Historical  Group;  Modern  Languages;  Classi- 
cal Languages;  Physics,  Chemistry,  and  Mathe- 
matics; Geology  and  Geography;  the  Biological 
Sciences. 

The  Commissions  will  greatly  stimulate  Uni- 
versity work  by  bringing  Faculty  and  Trustees 
together  and  by  actively  relating  representative 
alumni  and  other  citizens  with  the  work  and 
organization  of  the  University.  Not  only  will 
more  and  more  alumni  be  brought  into  active 
relations  with  the  University,  but  more  and  more 
of  the  representative  citizens  of  Chicago  and 
the  Central  West,  so  many  of  whom  have  testi- 
fied their  interest  in  the  University  by  great  gifts 
to  its  resources. 

With  this  new  integration  of  the  members  of 
the  University  with  the  alumni  and  with  the  com- 
munity which  the  Commissions  plan  promises; 
with  the  new  and  broader  service  to  the  com- 
munity which  the  organization  of  the  Institutes 

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will  insure;  with  the  provision  for  the  new  salary 
scale  which  will  properly  maintain  the  teaching 
staff;  with  the  great  medical  schools  already 
assured;  and  with  a  building  program  provided 
or  projected  which  may  fairly  be  described  as 
magnificent,  the  University  enters  its  fourth 
decade  with  a  promise  of  widening  service  which 
must  stir  its  sons  and  daughters  and  inspire  it 
friends. 

The  University  and  the  Alumni 

It  is  not  the  policy  of  the  University  to  call 
upon  its  alumni  to  meet  deficits  or  to  help  in 
carrying  its  current  expenses.  But  this  does 
not  mean  that  it  does  not  depend  upon  their 
co-operation.  The  good  name  of  the  University 
is  to  a  large  extent  in  their  hands,  and  their 
honorable  and  creditable  records  in  war  or 
peace  are  the  greatest  of  its  assets.  The  Uni- 
versity is  proud  that  the  presidents  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  California,  Clark  University,  and  the 
Rockefeller  Foundation  are  among  its  alumni, 
and  believes  that  all  its  graduates  who  in  industry, 
science,  education,  or  public  service  are  faith- 
fully at  work  are  serving  the  University  well. 

The  University  is  still  in  its  youth,  its  period 
of  expansion  and  equipment.  For  these  it  asks 
great  sums,  which  to  a  body  of  alumni  few  of 

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whom  are  as  much  as  fifty  years  old,  perhaps 
look  discouraging.  But  the  needs  of  the  Uni- 
versity are  so  various  that  every  graduate  who 
wants  to  do  so  can  find  one  to  care  for.  Many 
of  the  alumni  have  already  done  this.  Medals, 
prizes,  scholarships,  lectureships,  professorships, 
portraits,  and  libraries  have  been  given  by  indi- 
vidual alumni  or  alumni  groups.  Hundreds  of 
alumni  contributed  to  the  erection  of  the  Harper 
Memorial  Library  in  191 2,  and  to  the  portrait 
of  Mr.  Stagg  that  now  hangs  in  the  Trophy 
Room. 

A  survey  was  recently  made  of  the  accomplish- 
ments and  the  needs  of  the  various  departments. 
Most  of  them  announced  a  need  of  books.  Just 
now  especially  there  are  extraordinary  oppor- 
tunities for  the  purchase  of  rare  and  valuable 
books  and  collections  of  books,  in  Europe  and 
America.  Sometimes  the  opportunity  comes — 
and  goes — by  cable;  for  it  is  a  matter  of  hours. 
The  library  with  the  ready  money  is  the  one 
that  can  take  advantage  of  these  opportunities 
in  manuscripts,  incunabula,  and  modern  books. 
The  University  Libraries  are  open  the  year  around. 
Last  year  one  million  readers  were  recorded  as 
using  them,  besides  those  who  read  and  left  no 
record.  This  means  that  ten  thousand  students 
used  the  Libraries  an  average  of  one  hundred 
times  each  in  the  course  of  the  year. 

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But  if  a  graduate  cares  more  about  doing  for 
people  than  paying  for  books,  there  is  a  great 
need  at  the  University  for  scholarship  funds. 
The  gift  of  fifty  or  seventy-five  dollars  to  provide 
for  one  quarter  the  tuition  fees  of  a  young  man 
or  woman  who  is  making  a  gallant  fight  to  get  a 
college  education  and  is  working  seven  nights 
and  two  afternoons  in  the  week  to  do  it,  is  as 
good  a  use  as  a  man  can  make  of  the  money. 
The  University  needs  scholarships  to  help  such 
self-supporting  students  through  college. 

For  graduate  students  the  University  needs 
fellowships.  Thirty  years  ago  our  fellowships 
of  three  hundred  and  twenty  dollars  and  five 
hundred  and  twenty  dollars  were  eagerly  sought. 
Now,  after  paying  tuition,  no  student  can  live 
on  one.  A  beginning  has  been  made  especially 
in  the  new  Medical  Fund  of  research  fellowships 
of  one  thousand  dollars  and  one  thousand  two 
hundred  dollars.  There  is  great  need  of  more 
such  provision  for  graduate  students. 

For  really  advanced  work  in  history  and  liter- 
ature the  material  in  many  cases  cannot  be  brought 
to  the  student;  he  must  go  where  it  is  to  be  found, 
in  distant  libraries  and  museums,  at  home  or 
abroad.  Traveling  fellowships  are  greatly  needed 
for  this  purpose. 

Many  departments  need  money  for  publica- 
tion.   They  cannot  publish  the  results  of  their 

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investigations  for  want  of  funds.  Increased 
costs  of  printing  make  the  eleven  University 
journals  more  and  more  expensive  to  produce. 
The  journals  have  meant  a  great  deal  to  the 
progress  of  science  and  scholarship  in  this  country. 
They  should  be  increased  and  strengthened. 
Yet  the  University  is  facing  a  serious  task  even 
in  maintaining  them.  Each  journal  needs  an 
endowment  fund  to  assure  its  future.  Many 
graduate  students  upon  passing  their  Doctor's 
examination  find  that  to  publish  their  theses  as 
the  rule  of  the  University  requires  will  cost  them 
five  hundred  dollars,  or  often  considerably  more 
— an  expenditure  for  which  at  the  end  of  ten 
years  of  study  they  are  poorly  prepared.  A  fund 
for  publication  would  relieve  such  cases. 

The  release  of  the  Near  East  from  Turkish 
control  has  opened  many  important  seats  of  the 
ancient  world  to  excavation  for  the  first  time. 
The  University  has  been  quick  to  observe  this 
and  to  act  upon  it,  and  in  1919-20  organized  the 
Oriental  Institute  and  sent  an  expedition  to 
Egypt  and  Mesopotamia  under  the  charge  of  its 
experts  in  Egyptology  and  Assyriology.  The 
adventures  of  the  expedition  read  like  the  Arabian 
Nights,  and  its  acquisitions  secured  with  funds 
given  for  the  purpose  by  various  interested 
friends,  will  make  the  Oriental  collections  of 
Haskell  Museum  of  unique  value  and  interest. 

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The  further  work  of  the  Institute  in  expeditions 
and  excavations  will  depend  upon  the  support  it 
receives  from  its  friends. 

The  Department  of  Geology  is  very  anxious  to 
establish  a  Field  School  of  Geology  to  be  con- 
ducted in  the  summer,  as  soon  as  an  endowment 
fund  for  the  purpose  can  be  secured.  The 
Department  of  Geography  is  prepared  to  organize 
expeditions  for  geographical  research  as  soon  as 
funds  are  available  for  them,  and  one  member  of 
the  Department,  an  alumnus  of  the  University, 
is  now  on  a  geographical  expedition  to  Asia. 

The  use  that  may  be  made  of  great  scientific 
equipments  by  able  men  of  science  has  just  been 
brilliantly  illustrated  by  the  successful  measure- 
ment on  December  13,  1920,  at  the  Mount 
Wilson  Observatory  of  the  diameter  of  the  giant 
star  Betelgeuze  by  a  method  devised  by  Professor 
Michelson,  which  has  shown  the  diameter  of  this 
star  to  be  nearly  three  hundred  million  miles,  or 
three  hundred  times  that  of  the  sun.  The 
measurement  was  made  by  the  use  of  a  twenty- 
foot  interferometer  (an  instrument  the  invention 
of  which  is  one  of  Professor  Michelson's  scientific 
achievements),  in  connection  with  the  Mount 
Wilson  hundred-inch  telescope. 

Zoology  asks  means  to  equip  a  museum  in  the 
Hull  Zoological  Laboratory  for  its  undergraduate 
work.    A  permanent  experimental  plant  with  a 

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vivarium  for  the  study  of  the  behavior  and 
transformation  of  living  forms  would  importantly 
improve  the  Department's  facilities  for  research. 
This  could  be  provided  for  thirty  or  forty  thousand 
dollars. 

Botany  is  in  great  need  of  an  experimental 
botanic  garden,  with  a  research  laboratory  and 
suitable  greenhouses.  This  might  be  located  on 
the  block  at  Fifty-ninth  Street  and  Cottage 
Grove  Avenue.  Our  present  lack  of  such  equip- 
ment compels  many  research  students  to  go 
elsewhere  to  find  it. 

Few  alumni  realize  that  the  University's 
astronomical  equipment  at  the  Yerkes  Observa- 
tory is  one  of  the  most  remarkable  in  the  world. 
A  glance  at  the  full-page  illustrations  of  it  in  the 
Encyclopaedia  Britannica's  article  "Telescope" 
will  show  what  scientific  men  think  of  it.  Eight 
thousand  people  a  year  see  the  great  forty-inch 
telescope  in  operation.  Notable  work  has  been 
done  at  the  Observatory  on  the  double  stars, 
the  stellar  clusters,  and  the  Milky  Way.  But  the 
Observatory  needs  a  new  mounting  for  the 
twelve-inch  telescope,  which  could  be  provided 
for  about  fifteen  thousand  dollars,  and  a  brick 
cylinder  and  dome  for  the  Zeiss  Ultra- Violet 
Camera,  which  would  cost  two  thousand.  Facili- 
ties for  astronomical  instruction  on  the  Quad- 
rangles of  the  University  are  also  much  needed. 

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These  are  some  of  the  definite  needs  felt  by 
various  departments.  A  gift  of  twenty-five  dol- 
lars will  supply  some  of  them.  Others  will  require 
as  many  thousands.  Scholarships  have  sometimes 
been  established  in  the  University  by  groups  of 
friends,  and  perhaps  groups  of  alumni  or  alumni 
clubs  may  be  interested  in  adopting  the  work  of 
some  department  and  making  it  their  particular 
concern.  The  Director  of  the  Libraries,  the 
Secretary  of  the  Alumni  Council,  and  the  Secre- 
tary to  the  President  would  be  glad  to  put  alumni 
in  touch  with  specific  opportunities  large  or  small 
for  helping  to  build  the  University  that  is  to  be. 


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